Classifying disease outbreak reports using n-grams and semantic features

3rd International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, SMBM 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-36

  Conway, Mike ^a   Doan, Son ^a   Kawazoe, Ai ^a   Collier, Nigel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAG OF WORDS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; N-GRAMS; ONLINE NEWS; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SEMANTIC TAGGER; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 71549120006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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